Test 10 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

«penguins all look the same, how does mum find her kid» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penguins, mum · What happens: look, find, be · To what, where: same, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 129 «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 penguins	punct
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 find	advmod
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	nsubj
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 kid	nmod:poss
13	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 kid	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 find	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	penguins	the same		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	find in a quote	present · do-support	mum	mum's kid		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Topic
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

She never finds it, so another penguin feeds it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finds	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 finds	advmod
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finds	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeds	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 feeds	advmod
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 penguin	det
8	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeds	nsubj
9	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	present	She	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	feed	present	another penguin	it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

She smells its feathers only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod:poss
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smells	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 smells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	She	its feathers					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She knows her chick's voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chick	nmod:poss
4	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voice	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 chick	case
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	She	her chick's voice					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She counts every chick in the colony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counts	nsubj
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 chick	det
4	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 colony	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colony	det
7	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	She	every chick		the colony			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme

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